Catching up

Yikes, has it been that long since I last posted? Eesh. Since I'm tying up the machine right now, I'll do a quick catch-up:

* rafaela's birthday soirée = undiluted awesome. More on that in a later post.

* Nik apparently has Lyme disease. No, no one knows how. On the good side, it was caught early, and he's getting a strong dose of antibiotics, and it's apparently not slowing him down at all. On the bad side...it's frickin' Lyme disease.

* Halloween costume was successful, in that it inspired at least one carful of high school girls to scream, "NICE OUTFIT!" in unison. And since I never described it in this forum: after a month of bemoaning the fact that I can't go in drag with the facial hair, I finally asked myself, "Then again, why can't I?" (Yes, there are pictures. lbitw and jenphalian, you still gots?)

* Customer call of the day:
Caller: [muttering last half of sentence, because he started talking before I came on the line]
Me: Excuse me, can I help you?
Caller: Are you a psychiatrist?
Me: Um. No, I'm sorry.
Caller: Well, you should be. *click*

Do the BIM!

So over the weekend, I got The Apple [1980] from Netflix. Oh. My. God, where has this movie been all my life? shadesong and yendi, if you ever have another bad movie night, I am so totally bringing this one. Imagine, if you will, a pseudo- Xanadu future-shock disco fantasy starring a Canadian Donny and Marie. Oh, and directed by Jack Chick.

Yeahhhh. It's everything you're afraid it is, and so much more.

I'll give you a moment to process this, before inflicting the first six minutes of the film on you here:

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"Bim" is now my all-purpose word, mostly as an adjective. I haven't decided yet if it's negative or positive (although in its original context it should mean "cold, corporate and commercial"), so I'm using it to describe everything. As in, "You so need to get your mitts on The Apple, dude. It's totally bim."